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Limerick/Shannon branch was there in full strength - left to right: Filip, Liam, David, Alan, Dany  We had a long brainstorming session about this year's Nationals as advertised above and we went through some of our current projects too. We all have brought those things with wings only Dany is sticking to his current trend and brought some interesting kits of steam engines - looks like an interesting project. We slightly touched the subject of rivets adding rivets and riveting procedures of our plastic wonders, but more lessons and demos will be needed next time to make sure that we are familiar with most of the aspects of this technique. That's it for now, next meeting should be at the end of February, date to be confirmed later.
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Next Limerick/Shannon branch meeting will be on this Saturday, 18th February at 14.00, in the usual spot - Atlantic Airventure Centre in Shannon.
See the 1st page for directions.
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Today (Sunday 11 March) saw the Limerick/Shannon branch with an extensive display as part of the Irish Amateur Radio Society, held in the Radisson Blu Hotel outside Limerick. The show was well attended and many of the flyers for the forthcoming Nationals were taken away by those attending. There were lots of comments along the lines "Oh I used to build those" or "I have a few boxes of those in the attic"! so hopefully we may gain some members. Filip sanding away to his heart's content... Boats & Trains  Tanks/AFV's,  Boats and who we are......  all happily at work, note all the flyers.. & Planes  and more planes  Notice the benefit of Klear on this fine selection on 1:72 & 1:48 models.  Can we fill that space?  "Yes we Can"  Thanks to everybody who turned up, with models in support, and we all had a good day, and even got invited back!!
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Looks like ye put on a great display. Well done all!
Cheers
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Great looking display there! Who owns that rather cool looking A-10? J.
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Revell 1:72 F-16B
Completed builds
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Coming attractions -
Eduard 1:48 Bf 110 G-4
Academy 1:72 F-22a Raptor
Tamiya 1:35 T-55a
Moebius 1:128 Seaview
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12 03 2012 The A-10 is Alan Brislanes. It's 1/32 and beautifully made. Liam
Mesa called Jar-Jar Binks. Mesa your humble servant. I don't know. Mesa day startin pretty okee-day with a brisky morning munchy, then BOOM! Mesa gettin' very very scared!  I am the Rules Police. It's better than being the Thought Police.
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Thanks Liam! Even from this distance it looks very nice! J.
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Revell 1:72 F-16B
Completed builds
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Academy 1:72 F-22a Raptor
Tamiya 1:35 T-55a
Moebius 1:128 Seaview
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Jason this is a close-up of the A-10  and a view of the business end...  As Liam said it is a real beaut.
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BTW for info, the LARGE RC model NAVY, behind Filip, in the first photo, has a turbo engine installed and is capable of 200MPH! according to the owner. It is huge and because of it's size and speed he is prohibited from flying it in the Shannon Control Zone or any airport control zone. He lives in the Shannon control zone.
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35th-scale wrote:Looks like ye put on a great display. Well done all! My thoughts exactly and some nice work on show.
On the bench:1/72 Airfix Gazelle conversion 1/72 Revell F-16A 1/72 Revell Ec-135 Completed BuildsIn the pipeline1/72 Revell F-14D Tomcat diorama
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Just to confuse things a bit, there wasn't single tank on display  It's all artillery, tanks are for small children 
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Next Limerick/Shannon Branch meeting is scheduled for Saturday 7th of April. Usual venue - Atlantic Airventure Centre in Shannon - and usual time - 1400 hours or 2PM.
All and everybody is welcome, members or not, if you like sniff some glue-melted plastic come along and bring some of your projects with you.
See yis there.
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Filip,
that's the Easter Saturday, and the long weekend. Is that a good date?
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Don't shoot the messenger ;o)
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FiSe wrote:Just to confuse things a bit, there wasn't single tank on display It's all artillery, tanks are for small children Sorry Filip, from an aviation viewpoint, and 1:72 at that looking down from 15,000 ft they looked like tanks, in future I'll "try" to refer to them as AFV's or Targets! David
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FiSe wrote:Don't shoot the messenger ;o) Your too good a modeller to shoot!
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So, the meeting is confirmed on Saturday 7th of April...
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I don't think I can make that Saturday, with family arriving etc.
Sorry guys.
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Opadag wrote:I don't think I can make that Saturday, with family arriving etc.
Sorry guys. No problem. We'll catch up with you later. Liam
Mesa called Jar-Jar Binks. Mesa your humble servant. I don't know. Mesa day startin pretty okee-day with a brisky morning munchy, then BOOM! Mesa gettin' very very scared! I am the Rules Police. It's better than being the Thought Police.
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Just a quick one about our last meeting. There were fewer members in attendance yesterday - we blame it on the Easter egg hunt, but it was a productive meeting nevertheless. Steve Culliton - our competition secretary - travelled up from Cork to see the venue for 2012 Nationals and to sort out some small details, so the meeting was very business like with only few minutes left to talk about models and Limerick/Shannon branch trip to IMSS show in Dublin. And, ehm, yes, light philosophical discussion about the enjoyment of the hobby has been carried out over the usual cup o'coffee and it looks like that the 'it's only hobby' line will catch up pretty soon as an universal answer to anything...  Overall good and productive meeting and a couple of pics of some plastic: Alan's nicely built BAT21 inspired Cessna -good old Heller 1/48- with Danny Glover  Liam and Lindsay are contemplating over some of the points raised during the meeting, with pile of rubbish on the table, Filip's Brisfits, Liam's Zero, Alan's Cessna and some other stuff 
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